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Teri G replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!!!!!!'"So empowered women cannot be sex objects? What if that's what they genuinly want to be?
My opinion is that the women who want to be seen as sex objects are not empowered. They are just playing pretend. If KK wasn't good looking she would…"
Teri G replied to Belle Rose's discussion 'EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!!!!!!'"That's true, but the reason she is famous in the first place is because of her modeling and only afterwards came the TV shows. Once she was already famous young girls think they want to be like her so they watch her shows and learn how to…"
Holo Gram replied to Melvinotis's discussion 'How to acknowledge good fortune?'"I am lucky to have never been attacked or robbed my entire life. Or was that a result of my planning and making reasoned decisions to avoid situations where attack and robbery were more likely?"
Daniel Rockwell replied to Holo Gram's discussion 'Does every living animal have a consciousness?'"I think that my feelings on this are summed up pretty decently by a post I made on a tangentially related topic:
http://www.thinkatheist.com/xn/detail/1982180:Comment:1312254
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Holo Gram replied to Holo Gram's discussion 'Does every living animal have a consciousness?'"So it's only humans with a conscience that produces sin and guilt, that have need for gods to threaten and keep them on their straight and narrow golden paths? Cows and pigs and deer, for example, don't have a conscience and cannot be…"
Go4it replied to Elon Johnson's discussion 'Are people stupid?'"I 've always said "Ignorance is easily cured, Stupidity is a lifelong disability"
Education has very little to do with it. Just think of all the less schooled people you know of , who can have a good conversation, on multiple topics,…"
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